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      «* Tb&tfgi ** tk e exact date of the build-- Oe is not now to be obtained , there is Jid evidence' that it must have been erecte d very soon after the restoration of Charles the Second- Being a kirge aud com modious place , it was fixed upon as a prey to the parish minister , when his cimrch was consumed in the fire of ^ London / A . D . 1666 ; ' nor could the rightful owners regain possession till the new

      church was built . This was the fate of many other meeting-houses , at that time , and places in a strong light the unprincipled power of the ecclesiastical government , during the reign of Charles the Second . "—P . 46 < 2 .

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      iRT . V . — The Lo ? idon Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews Examined , and the Pretensions of the Converted Jew Investigated , @c . &fc . By B . R . Qoakman , late Printer to the Institution . . 8 vo . pp . 64 . Simpkinand Marshall . 181 ( i .

      WE know not what degree of credit is due to the '" late Printer to the Institution" for converting the Jews , but if the tenth part ; of what he relates be true , the

      conductors of the society ovve an apology to the public for the costly delusion which they have been the means of supporting . According to this m statement , almost the only Jew : of feftr character who has been ^ connected

      with "' the society was one who never * professed conversion and who , wanting the ^ afrlrfication of hypocrisy , was illused by the managers . t / ne short story will explain the design * of this pamphlet : "• A man of the name of Marinus caiua

      from Germany into this country , for . the purpose of obtaining a , sale for " sowo Cologne * Water , or which he pnofesfeed to be the Inventor . Finding himself run short of casl > , he applied to the London Society for assistance . I asked him ! if he had embraced Christianity ; bis . reply was ,

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      TO THE EDITOR , ^ V - Rqadj , n £ r , Sept . 15 , 181 ( 5 . P * HE humble tribute I send , you for IL insertion in-.. the . Repository , to JJk memory of Mr . Vidler , is but a * ery feeble attempt to express the emor « ons of respect with which his memory P "j Worish T ed b y . those who had the *» to \ $ of his acquaintance hore .

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      I am not yet converted * but if I can gvt a good sale far ? nt / Cologne Tf r ater I sowt shall her—P , 64 . The " late Printer' * sums up his pleadings against the Society , in a few words : " What has the London Society done . ? -expended 70 , 000 / . ^ and have made their proselytes worse characters than they were before I "—P » 6 * 4 .

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      Art . VI . — On Persecution . A Discourse delivered in the Protestant Dissenting Chapel , Lewin ' s Mead , Bristol , June 16 , 18 \ 6 , in recommendation of a Subscription for the Relief of the Protestant Sufferers for Conscience-Sake in the South of France . By John Prior Estlin , UL . D . 8 vo . pp . 38 . Longman aud

      Co . 1816 . THE benevolent preacher exposes and reprobates Persecution , as pre-supposing " that a perfect knowledge of religious subjects is attainable by all men , and consequently , that an uniformity of belief is practicable ;

      that those who practise it have attained this knowledge and are infallible ;' that errors of the understanding , merely are criminal ; that those who have arrived at speculative perfectloii themselves . have , a . .. right . , to- compel ^ others to come into the truth ; " .-ancT

      that pains and penalties are the m ea ^ V to accomplish this purpose . " f An opinion is stated in p . 20 * which * , is well worthy of discussion ; £ nd * vel insert the statement of it to invite Ifotfi notice of our f Correspondents ^ vi ^ - Xi Wlierever the doctrines of the eternity of hcll-tormeiits * of \ rtspiratton or . in / opr

      Utility 9 and of exclusive salvation OV salvation depending 071 opinions , arc received ' together * in a heart prepared ' for thelt * reception , a persecuting spirit appears to me to be a natural and legits rnate ddmeQuehcei" \ ' 'A "' •¦ * * ¦ * . '"' <> * " * — 1 k ' M ., ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ —— —¦— r ¦ _ ~ J " i — ¦•»

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      From his conversation they not only derived , the highest intellectual gratifjl cation , but have to date the . best anA holiest feelings which Christian frutH is calculated to i , n ? p ' tre . Xhey jemeflf ** - ber him with * an enthusiasm of reverence , whi > ch it would be impossible for mu ^ h higher powers than mjne ~ to e ^ kpress : Tt ^ is ^ rattfyingto Aflect that

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      Pbetry . —A Tribute lo the Memory of the iteV . William I Idler . 54 Q

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 549, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/49/